All Episodes
The Honey Bee Veterinary Consortium with Allie and Britteny (S3, E15)
Sept. 7, 2020
In today’s episode we talk to Britteny Kyle, DVM, President of the Honey Bee Veterinary Consortium (HBVC) and Alexzandra (Allie) Mosel, DVM, who is the President Elect. Both are beekeepers and small animal veterinarians interested in getting more...
Honey and the Good Food Awards with Sarah Weiner and Mark Carlson (S3, E14)
Aug. 31, 2020
In today’s episode we talk with Sarah Weiner, the Executive Director of the Good Food Awards Foundation and Mark Carlson, the Committee Co-Chair of the Honey Category. Sarah brings a global perspective to her position having worked with Slow Foods...
Weird Bee Behaviors - Dr. Rachael Bonoan with Kirsten (S3, E13)
Aug. 24, 2020
In this episode, Kirsten Traynor meets up with Dr. Rachael Bonoan, a bee biologist and ecologist. Bees have some unusual and quirky behaviors. They discuss bumble bee high fives, why honey bees like stinky, dirty water, and how our pollinators may be...
Strong Microbials with Drs. Vera and Slava Strogolova (S3, E12)
Aug. 17, 2020
Strong Microbials got their start producing probiotics to improve the health of cattle, dairy cows, poultry and swine. Their products improved animal food digestion resulting in overall animal health. In 2012 they became interested in doing the same...
Beekeeping Downunder: Simeon Valkenburg with Kirsten (S3, E11)
Aug. 10, 2020
In this episode, Kirsten chats with commercial beekeeper Simeon Valkenburg, who runs a commercial operation with his brother in Australia. He talks about building up their commercial operation from scratch. They started with one hive and are now up to...
Bee Optimism with Dr. Jay Evans (S3, E10)
Aug. 3, 2020
Dr. Jay Evans is the Research Leader at the USDA Honey Bee Research Lab in Beltsville Maryland. He and the resident scientists there are involved in many projects, including mite studies, nutrition supplements for bees, queen health and nutrition....
Dr. Samuel Ramsey - Tracking The Tropilaelaps & More (S3, E8)
July 20, 2020
Dr. Sam Ramsey joins us again to share what he has found from his most recent work on Tropilaelaps mites in Thailand. He has been looking at the history of this mite’s movement around the world, the biology and its life cycle. Just as...
Heroes To Hives - Adam Ingrao with Kirsten Traynor (S3, E7)
July 13, 2020
This week, guest co-host Kirsten Traynor chats with Adam Ingrao, Ph.D, founder of Heroes to Hive. Heroes To Hives is a veterans training program he started five years ago. They train veterans, especially those suffering from PTSD, how to manage...
World Bee Count with James Wilkes and Joseph Cazier (S3, E6)
July 6, 2020
In this episode, we talk with James Wilkes and Joseph Cazier from , who spearheaded the World Bee Count program just completed this spring. Bee Count is an annual event that aims to identify pollinators around the world and also measure pollinator...
Pollinator Week Series: Pollinator Gardens & Bumble Bees with Dr. David Goulson and Kirsten Traynor (S3, E5)
June 26, 2020
As part of the pollinator week special, guest host Kirsten Traynor chats with Dr. Dave Goulson, an expert on pollinator health from the University of Sussex. Dave Goulson has been fascinated with insects since he was a boy and was able to turn this...
Pollinator Week Series: Bee Friendly Farming with Ron Bitner (S3, E4)
June 25, 2020
Bee Friendly Farming has a good friend in Ron Bitner, Co-Chair of this Pollinator Partnership program. Ron runs Bitner Winery near Boise Idaho in Treasure Valley and for 40 some years was involved in non-apis bee management for pollination. Bee...
Pollinator Week Series: The PolliNation Nation & More with Dr. Andony Melathopoulos (S3, E3)
June 24, 2020
Andony Melathopoulos is the Pollinator Health Extension Specialist for Oregon State University. He’s not just about honey bees, but every pollinator out there. But honey bees are a big part of what he does because of the multitude of crops grown in...
Pollinator Week Series: Chasing the Monarch Butterfly with Dr. Chip Taylor (S3, E2)
June 23, 2020
Dr. Orley, “Chip” Taylor started Monarch Watch about 30 years ago. So far, he and his group have managed to tag over two million monarchs so they can study the migration habits of this beautiful butterfly. His research has also determined where...
Pollinator Week Series: Pollinator Partnership with Laurie Adams & Kelly Rourke (S3, E1)
June 22, 2020
Welcome to the first of our Pollinator Week Special Episodes. Each day this week we’ll release new interviews with teams and individuals who are all working to protect, provide and propagate pollinators all over the globe! Pollinator Week was...
The BeeMD and More with Dr. Jamie Ellis (S2, E34)
June 15, 2020
This week, we talk with Dr. Jamie Ellis, from the University of Florida about The BEEMD website, the UoF Bee Lab, Coloss, research, teaching and his extension work! All his work is centered on honey bees, is beekeeper driven and embraces...
Dr. Meghan Milbrath - Honey Bees, Disease and More with Kirsten Traynor (S2, E33)
June 8, 2020
In this episode, guest co-host and 2 Million Blossoms editor Kirsten Traynor joins Jeff and Kim with her Dr. Meghan Milbrath interview. Meghan applies her epidemiology background in her work with honey bee diseases as an academic specialist at...
Talking Russian Honey Bees with Dr. Tom Rinderer and Steve Coy (S2, E32)
May 29, 2020
Ask beekeepers and you will hear many different opinions on Russian Honey Bees. Mostly, they either love them, hate them or know nothing about them. In this episode, we go directly to the US source of these bees with Dr. Tom Rinderer and Steve...